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Alfred Elwes (1819–1888) was a nineteenth-century British author of children's literature, academic, philologist, and occasional translator of French, Italian and Portuguese literature into English. He is perhaps best remembered for his translation of the medieval Arthurian romance ''Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende; a Tale of the Times of King Arthur''. ==Life and career== Elwes was born in 1819 at Woolwich, Kent.〔Allibone, S. Austin. ''A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century''. London, Trübner & Co., 1871, vol. III, p. 2781 (a digression under the entry for Joseph Wilson).〕 In his education Elwes attained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He studied at Leiden in the Netherlands.〔 Subsequently Elwes was Professor of English at Leghorn, Tuscany.〔 His earliest known work, ''Il Nuovo Vergani'' (1845), a grammar in Italian for the study of English,〔 was probably written and published during his tenure in this position, as was, no doubt, his earliest known translation, ''A new and complete Italian grammar by Vergani'' (1846), which would have performed the same office in English for the study of Italian. Later, after returning to England, Elwes served as President of the British Literary Society in a term beginning in 1857〔''The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine'', n.s., v. 5, 1858, London, Houlston and Wright, 1858, p. 279.〕 and running through 1858.〔''The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine'', n.s., v. 6, 1858, London, Houlston and Wright, 1858, p. 192.〕〔''The Literary and Education Year Book for 1859'', London, Kent and Co., (), p. 274.〕 In 1868 he served, along with Samuel Neil, as one of the two vice-presidents of the newly established British Literary Union.〔''The Quarterly Journal of the British Literary Union'', Preliminary Number, April 1868, London, Longmans, Green, & Co., p. ().〕 In 1870 he held the position of Official Translator of Modern Languages in London.〔 He died in December 1888 in Kensington. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Elwes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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